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Translating EDI to XML

In today’s world, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) formats such as ANSI X12 and EDIFACT are still prevalent, and make up a large number of electronic business-to-business transactions. However, chances are your business opted to internally standardize on a more modern format: XML.

So while EDI continues to evolve to implement XML-based standards, the need for EDI to XML conversion exists in the present.

Translating EDI to XML is one approach to data normalization: the act of translating data that your customers and business partners provide into a format that your business can understand.

There are numerous benefits gained by translating EDI to XML:

• XML makes it possible to adapt a standard transaction format for within your business.
• Converting EDI to XML allows your applications to be more loosely coupled with your customers’ or business partners’ data.
• While EDI formats have traditionally been designed to be machine-readable, XML is human-readable, making it easier to diagnose data-related issues.

The challenges of converting EDI to XML include:

• Half the battle is selecting XML data schemas to use that fulfill the needs of numerous EDI input formats, and then mapping EDI to XML.
• Businesses make changes to their transaction protocols or formats on a periodic basis without alerting their partners to this fact.

The Solution

Xenos terminalONE provides your organization with a B2B gateway that accepts EDI transactions across a variety of communication channels, performing tasks such as EDI to XML conversion, prior to that data making it in to your application architecture.

Xenos terminalONE supports numerous standard and off-standard EDI messages including ANSI X12, EDIFACT, and flat file formats through the innovative use of data dictionaries. Dictionaries are XML files that specify the format of the incoming or outgoing data, providing a means of easily adapting your translation to the changing needs of your business partners or clients, on-the-fly.

• For more information on terminalONE, click here.
• For a case study about National Industrial Concepts implementing Xenos terminalONE to provide their EDI to XML conversion needs, click here.

Let Xenos Professional Services assist you by delivering content-based message routing solutions, implementing EDI to XML data mappings and dictionaries using Xenos terminalONE. For more information, click here.